SIDS Mid-Atlantic
Sudden Infant Death Services of the Mid-Atlantic serves DC, VA and MD

 

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SIDS Mid-Atlantic serves Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia

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Cribs for Kids

  

 

Despite the progress the “Back to Sleep” campaign has made in reducing the number of babies dying of SIDS, about 4500 babies a year die of sudden unexpected infant death in the United States, and over 200 every year in Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C. Many of these babies did not have a safe place to sleep. Their cribs were either old and not fit for use, or they had no cribs and were sleeping on a couch or an adult bed. More babies die in unsafe beds than die in automobile accidents. We have worked hard to ensure that all babies have safe car seats. Now we need to ensure that every baby has a safe place to sleep.

 

“Cribs for Kids” provides needy families with the most basic of needs for their babies: cribs to help prevent unnecessary and tragic deaths.

 

Families often make do with older unsafe cribs or no cribs at all. Bedsharing has increased over the past decade, and along with that practice, we see increasing deaths due to accidental suffocation.  Accidental suffocation is now the leading cause of unintentional injury deaths among newborns.

SIDS rates among African American infants are three times greater than in white babies.. We must strengthen and extend our education programs into these communities with hands-on, on-site programs that can be implemented in homes, daycare centers, churches, community centers, schools and hospitals; and involve local civic, service and social groups to assist in these efforts. “Cribs for Kids” is true hands-on program designed to provide both an appropriate sleeping environment—a crib—and education regarding safe sleep for babies to the families who most need the information.

 

The “Cribs for Kids” Project provides safe cribs for babies, to help prevent needless, tragic infant deaths. A new portable crib costs only $50, and bedding and shipping cost another $20. Yourdonation can help save a baby's life. Please help us expand the Cribs for Kids Project and make sure that no baby dies because he did not have a safe place to sleep. To make a donation, please click on "Donate"

 

SIDS Mid-Atlantic  PO Box 799 Haymarket Virginia 20168

703-955-6899

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